![]() ![]() ![]() Others include Herbert Richardson (Rob Morgan), who admits to a killing, but was convicted without any consideration given to the fact that as a Vietnam veteran, he suffers from severe PTSD. Stevenson arrives at nearby Holman Prison to find it full of death row inmates like Johnny D. ![]() The murder and arrest take place in Monroeville, Alabama-the hometown of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Just Mercy focuses, above all, on the case of Walter “Johnny D” McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a black man arrested in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old white girl and convicted based on false testimony, organized by a racially motivated prosecutor and local authorities. ![]() Jordan), an African-American, Harvard-trained lawyer, early in his career, to reverse death penalty sentences in Alabama. It dramatizes the courageous efforts by Stevenson (Michael B. The film is based on Bryan Stevenson’s bestselling 2014 memoir, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. The harsh state of social relations in the US is the subject of Just Mercy, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, which concerns itself with the fight against the death penalty. D irected by Destin Daniel Cretton, written by Cretton and Andrew Lanham, based on a book by Bryan Stevenson ![]()
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